International Accounting Standard 1

Presentation of Financial Statements

Orhan Balıkçı

Introduction

The International Accounting Standards Committee was establish in 1973

IASC released a series of standards called IAS between 1973 and 2000

IASB was found in 2001 as successor to IASC

Introduction

Objective

Basis for presentation of general purpose

financial statements to ensure

comparability with the entity’s financial

statements of previous periods

and with the financial statements

of other entities

Overall requirements for presentation of

financial statements,

guidelines for their structure and

minimum requirements for

their content

Scope• General purpose financial statements in

accordance with IFRS

• IAS 1 doesn’t apply to Interim Financial Reporting

• IAS 1 applies to all entities

• Terminology in this standard used suitable for profit oriented entities

Purpose of Financial Statements

The objective of financial statements is to provide information about an entity’s financial position, its financial performance, and its cash flows.

Financial statements provide information about an entity's:

Assets

Liabilities

Equity

Income and expenses, including gains and losses

Contributions by and distributions to owners (in their capacity as owners)

Cash flows

Complete set of financial statements

A statement of financial position as

at the end of the period

a statement of profit or loss and

other comprehensive

income forthe period

A statement of changes in equity

for the period

A statement of cash flow for the period

Notes, comprising a summary of significant

accounting policies and other

explanatory information

A statement of financial position as at the beginning of

the earliest comparative period

DefinitionsGeneral Purpose Financial Statements

Those intended to meet the needs of users who are not in a position to require an entity to prepare reports tailored to their particular information needs

Impracticable Applying a requirement is impracticable when the entity cannot apply it after making every reasonable effort do so.

IFRSs Standards and Interpretations adopted by the IASB. They comprises: IFRS, IAS, IFRIC, SIC.

Material Omissions or misstatements of items

Are material if they could, individually or collectively, influence the economic decisions that users make on the basis of financial statements.

Notes Contain information in addition to that presented in the statement of financial position, statement of comprehensive income, separate income statement(if presented), statement of changes in equity and statement of cash flows.

DefinitionsOwners Are holders of instruments classified as equity.

Other comprehensive income

Comprises items of income and expense (including reclassification adjustments) that are not recognized in profit or loss as required or permitted by other IFRSs.

Profit or Loss Is the total of income less expenses, excluding the components of other comprehensive income.

Reclassification adjustments

are amounts reclassified to profit or loss in the current period that were recognized in the current or previous periods.

Total Comprehensive Income

Is the change in equity during a period resulting from transactions and other events, other than those changes resulting from transactions with owners in their capacity as owners.Total comprehensive income comprises all components of ‘profit or loss’ and of ‘other comprehensive income’.

General features

Fair presentation and compliance with IFRSs

Going concern

Accrual basis of accounting

Consistency of presentation

Materiality and aggregation

Offsetting

Comparative Information

Frequency of reporting

Structure and content

Identification of the financial statements

Statement of financial position

Statement of comprehensive income

Statement of changes in equity

Statement of cash flows

Notes

Other disclosures

Identification of the financial statements

Entities should identify clearly financial statements and they must be distinguished from other information in the same published document and must identify name of the reporting entity, whether the financial statements cover the individual entity or a group of entities, the statement of financial position date, the presentation currency, the level of rounding used

Statement of financial position

Property, plant and equipment

Investment property

Intangible assets

Financial assets

Investments accounted for using the equity method

Biological assets

Trade and other receivables etc.

Current/non-current distinction

Current assets are described as assets expected to be realized, sold, or consumed within the normal operating cycle or within 12 months after the reporting period.

Current liabilities are described as it expects to settle the liability in its normal operating cycle.

All other assets and liabilities are be classified as non-current.

Information to be presented either in the statement of financial position or in the notes

• Entity shall disclose, either in the statement of financial position or in the notes, further subclassification of the line items presented, classified in a manner appropriate to the entity’s operations.

• The number of shares authorised, the number of shares issued and fully paid, and issued but not fully paid, par value per share, or that the shares have no par value, a reconciliation of the number of shares outstanding at the beginning and at the end of the period etc.

• Information to be disclosed for each class of share capital

• Description of the nature and purpose of each reserve within equity

Example of statement of financial position

Here is Samsung's statement of financial position

Statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income

All items of revenue and expense recognized in a period shall be included in surplus or deficit unless IAS require otherwise

An entity present in two-ways:

A single statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income, with profit or loss and other comprehensive income presented in two sections,

Two statements: a separate statement of profit or loss a statement of comprehensive income, immediately following the statement of profit or loss and beginning with profit or loss

Statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income

According to IAS 1.83, entities must disclose the following items in this statement as allocations for the period;

profit or loss for the period attributable to:

non-controlling interests, and

owners of the parent.

total comprehensive income for the period attributable to:

non-controlling interests, and

owners of the parent.

Example of Statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income

Here is Samsung's statement of profit or loss

Statement of changes in equity

The following lines are presented in a statement of changes in equity:

a) Total comprehensive income for the period, showing separately the total amounts attributable to owners of the parent and to non-controlling interests;

b) For each component of equity, the effects of retrospective application or retrospective restatement recognised in accordance with IAS 8.

c) A reconciliation between the carrying amount at the beginning and the end of the period, separately disclosing each change, for each component of equity

Example of statement of changes in equity

Here is Samsung's statement of chanes in equity

Statement of cash flows

Cash flow information provides users of financial statements with a basis to assess the ability of the entity to generate cash and cash equivalents and the needs of the entity to utilize those cash flows. IAS 7 sets out requirements for the presentation and disclosure of cash flow information.

Example of Statement of cash flows

Here is Samsung's statement of cash flow

Notes

Entities must disclosure the following titles in notes;

Structure

Disclosure of Accounting Policies

Sources of estimation

uncertainty

Capital

Other disclosures

Notes - Structure

The notes must present the following items:

• Information about the basis of preparation of the financial statements and the specific accounting policies used,

• Disclose any information required by IFRSs that is not presented elsewhere in the financial statements and

• Provide additional information that is not presented elsewhere in the financial statements but is relevant to an understanding of any of them.

Notes - Disclosure of accounting policies

An entity shall disclose the following items in the summary of significant accounting policies:

1. the measurement basis (or bases) used in preparing the financial statements, and

2. the other accounting policies used that are relevant to an understanding of the financial statements

Notes - Sources of estimation uncertainty

An entity must disclose information about the key assumptions concerning the future, and other key sources of estimation uncertainty at the end of the reporting period, that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next financial year. These disclosures do not involve disclosing budgets or forecasts.

Notes- Capital

Entities must disclose the following information to evaluate the entity’s objectives, policies and processes for managing capital:

1. Qualitative information about its objectives, policies and processes for managing capital,

2. Summary quantitative data about what it manages as capital.

3. Whether during the period it complied with any externally imposed capital requirements to which it is subject.

4. When the entity has not complied with such externally imposed capital requirements, the consequences of such non-compliance.

Notes - Other information

The followings are disclose in the notes:

1. the amount of dividends proposed or declared before the financial statements were authorized for issue but not recognized as a distribution to owners during the period, and the related amount per share,

2. the amount of any cumulative preference dividends not recognized.

IAS adoption in Turkey

Capital Markets Board of Turkey issued the first financial accounting standards for publicly owned companies in 1989, and then the Istanbul Stock Exchange was opened in 1986. This set of CMB standards was comparable to IAS.

In 2007, the Turkish Accounting Standards Board issued 31 Turkish accounting standards and seven Turkish financial reporting standards. All of these issued standards correspond to the respective IAS and IFRS.

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